Webinar Overview:

Every hospital that accepts payment for Medicare and Medicaid patients must comply with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Conditions of Participation (CoPs). The Interpretive Guidelines serve as the basis for determining hospital compliance. This informative seminar covers the changes to the Interpretive Guidelines, including the final guidelines that were issued October 17, 2008. In addition, it covers the Joint Commission changes that were issued based on the CMS hospital CoPs. The curriculum covers the impact of the changes on such areas as patient rights, quality assurance performance improvement (QAPI), medical staff, nursing services, medical records, pharmaceutical services, utilization review (UR), discharge planning, organ procurement, surgical, anesthesia, radiological and laboratory services, dietetic, nuclear medicine, emergency, rehabilitation, and respiratory services.

Target Audience:

• Chief Nursing Officers
• Nurse Managers/ Supervisors
• Compliance Officers
• Joint Commission Coordinators
• Legal Counsel
• Quality Improvement
• Risk Managers
• Staff Nurses
• Nurse Educators
• Patient Safety Committees
• Outpatient Directors
• Directors of Rehabilitation
• Dieticians
• Anesthesia and Surgery Staff
• Respiratory Therapy Directors

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall that the infection control standards are very important to both TJC and CMS and that CMS receives a $50 million grant to enforce
• Discuss the CMS discharge requirements and why it is important to prevent unnecessary readmissions
• Describe the organ procurement standards including the requirement to notify the organ procurement organization of all deaths
• Describe how the CMS regulations under dietary services including the requirement to have an order for any therapeutic diets
• Recall that there have been major changes to the anesthesia standards
• Describe that there be one person is assigned to manage and be responsible for outpatient services

Nursing Contact Hours/Attendance Certificate:

This course has been approved for 2.4 Iowa Nursing Contact Hoursor 2 Attendance Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.